Donald Trump's war on the First Amendment
5 responses | 0 likes
Started by metmike - Jan. 30, 2026, 12:09 p.m.


Previous thread:

     Trumps minions order Jimmy Kimmel taken off the air            

                            34 responses |            

                Started by metmike - Sept. 17, 2025, 8:02 p.m.    

        https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/114744/

++++++++++

https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/116096/#116704

++++++++++++

Don Lemon arrested by federal authorities after protest at Minnesota church service

Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a Friday post on X that Lemon was arrested in addition to three other journalists "in connection with the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/don-lemon-arrested-federal-authorities-attorney-says-rcna256680

Comments
By metmike - Jan. 30, 2026, 12:15 p.m.
Like Reply

Trump slams Don Lemon as 'dumbest man on television' over debate question

Updated July 31, 2019, 5:25 p.m. ET

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2019/07/31/trump-slams-don-lemon-dumbest-man-over-debate-question/1877653001/

By metmike - Jan. 30, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
Like Reply

Feds arrest Don Lemon, Minnesota journalist and two others over church protest                                             

   



By metmike - Jan. 30, 2026, 10:51 p.m.
Like Reply

Too funny that Donald Trump referred to Don Lemon as the dumbest man on television.

While Donald Trump acts like the dumbest president in history by a Grand Canyon wide margin.

Donald Trump can’t even remember what got him elected.

The DOJ weaponizing their power to unfairly  attack and investigate him while he was in office and after his first term. This is what help galvanize the non MAGA base which he needed to win the 2024 election.

Millions could see the bias from the Swamp, especially the DOJ that singled him out for being Donald Trump on numerous occasions and created a victim that people empathized with in November 2024.

Millions of his votes in that last election were votes against the weaponizing of the criminal justice system.

So what does he do?

He creates a 5 times swampier swamp and personally uses the justice department that he hired after they swore allegiance to Donald Trump(the old swamp was NOT being controlled by Joe Biden).

And just like he was the victim and martyr, he is creating victims and martyrs left and right for doing exactly what he insisted was so wrongly being done to him……only an order of magnitude worse, including vengeance and rewriting history (2020 election) and trying to destroy anybody that didn’t vote for him or any media that reports the truth about him.

And the entire world, except for MAGA sees it clearly. So not only does it make him look worse and worse and unqualified to be president, he picks battles that he’s not smart enough to know that he will lose or has lost already.

For instance, He boosted Jimmy Kimmels ratings and made Donald Trump look really bad. He and his sycophants created 2 martyrs for their anti ICE cause in MN and that battle is lost in MN and has damaged ICE forever in our country with no chance of being redeemed. But he continues to attack Alex Pretti, a wonderful human being and universally respected martyr for the cause    Every attack he makes, causes Donald Trump to look worse and worse!

Don Lemon was fired by CNN for low ratings and low likability and everybody completely forgot about him forever.

Thanks to Donald Trump, Don Lemon‘s name and activities are suddenly the top news story. Donald Trump just created a new martyr with a new cause.
Don Lemon is now fighting for EVERYBODYS rights in the First Amendment. Don Lemons dead career has just been rejuvenated because of this cause. 

Donald Trump‘s personal hatred of Don Lemon and his completely wrong order to arrest him for reporting something Donald Trump didn’t like.

Donald Trump is fighting to strip away the First Amendments rights of the media when they report the truth about him.

And he called Don Lemon dumb???

The scariest thing about Donald Trumps pathological, delusional thinking as it gets worse from his clearly obvious progressive dementia is that this small incident is a perfect example of how Donald Trump thinks ALL THE TIME.

He is the most powerful man on the planet and he‘s also a deranged psycho path. 

When he is removed from office, most likely in 2027 but possibly in 2026, we should all be concerned about what he will do in desperation. in an attempt to try to maintain power.

By metmike - Jan. 31, 2026, 2:18 a.m.
Like Reply

And to make it even dumber, at the same event Donald Trump had a former president of the NAACP arrested for the same really dumb reason that Don Lemon was arrested for.

He’s delusional.

NAACP Demands Release of Nekima Levy Armstrong  

https://naacp.org/articles/naacp-demands-release-nekima-levy-armstrong


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

January 22, 2026  
Contact: Chyna Fields, cfields@naacpnet.org 
 

MINNEAPOLIS – Former NAACP Minneapolis Chapter President, Nekima Levy Armstrong Esq., along with Chauntyll Louisa Allen, and U.S. Army veteran, William Kelly, were improperly arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Agents. Their arrests violated their constitutional rights and NAACP demands their immediate release.
  

Ms. Armstrong and her fellow demonstrators gathered peacefully at a church over the pastor's alleged leadership within the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The protests follow the increase in ICE activity and the fatal shooting of Minneapolis resident Renee Nicole Good.
  

In response to their unlawful arrests, NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson released the following statement:
  

"The NAACP demands the immediate release of Nekima Armstrong and her fellow protestors. The only reason the FBI and DHS arrested them is that they didn't like what they had to say.
 "We live in a country where free speech and the ability to peacefully protest are fundamental rights. But once again, the President of the United States has weaponized federal agents against American citizens to be his personal enforcers.
 "We're watching in real time as the Department of Justice, once responsible for upholding the law, is being twisted into the Department of Vengeance, attacking anyone who displeases the president.
 "ICE agents cover their faces, terrorize our neighbors, and attack anyone who gets in their way. This is straight out of the KKK's playbook.
  "Not stopping there, the White House shared an AI-edited photo of Nekima, depicting her in tears and scared when, in actuality, she was poised, determined, and unafraid.
  "This Administration wants you to believe our community is afraid, but we will never be shaken. And we will never be broken."   
 
NAACP General Counsel Janette McCarthy-Wallace added:  


"The arrests of Nekima Levy Armstrong, Chauntyll Louisa Allen, and William Kelly likely violated their First Amendment – their right to peaceful protest and free association, Fourth Amendment – their protection against illegal searches and seizures, and Fifth Amendment – their right to due process under the law. 
 

"The NAACP is not aware of any alleged federal crime they committed; neither the FBI nor DHS has issued a warrant for these arrests, and there have been no related indictments. Put simply, there has been no legal explanation for these arrests, further demonstrating this Administration's ham-fisted attempts to oppress Americans."    
 
The NAACP will continue to keep this Administration accountable and to fight for the rights due to every Black American. Visit naacp.org for more information.  

+++++++++++++++++

Donald Trump just picked another battle he will lose badly. He's lost his ability to evaluate, interpret and understand, even basic concepts needed to  make rational decisions. He's surrounded himself entirely with loyal sycophants that have pledged their allegiance to Donald Trump who cheer for him, no matter how profoundly stupid his decisions and statements are. He listens to Fox, which is cashing in with block buster ratings by exploiting his  MAGA cult. Fox reports Donald Trump's most delusional decisions to be too brilliant for the rest of us to comprehend. Manufacturing a world where the omnipotent Donald Trump is never wrong. Telling millions of captured brain MAGA viewers exactly what they wish were true..............as the United States loses it's respect around the world with the majority of its allies and faces a political rift of epic proportions at home. All of this SELF INFLICTED, ENTIRELY by Donald Trump as he makes ruinous tariff and other decisions that hurt our economy and citizens. 

This is only providing Donald Trump with positive reinforcement for making even more delusional statements and making even more ruinous decisions. 

And for many non MAGA people, it's accepted as the new "normal". As if hate, vengeance and unchallenged power is listed in the Constitution as the top priority for how the leader of the executive branch should rule the United States of America.

Just wait until the weather warms up. The protesting against Donald Trump will likely be unprecedented.

Even with temperatures like this, today we're having widespread protesting against ICE:

https://www.mesonet.org/weather/air-temperature/national-wind-chill-heat-index

By metmike - Jan. 31, 2026, 7:35 p.m.
Like Reply

Trump lashes into female ABC News reporter with new insult when pressed on $10 billion IRS lawsuit

‘You’re a loud person,’ the president sneered on Friday at ABC News’ Karen Travers. ‘Very loud. Let somebody else have a chance.’

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-abc-news-karen-travers-insult-b2911201.html?test_group=lighteradlayout

Donald Trump once again tore into a female White House reporter on Friday, calling her a “very loud” person working for a “fake news” outlet who should give other reporters a chance to speak.

The attack on ABC News correspondent Karen Travers – which follows a growing trend of the president slamming women journalists with sexist insults – seemed to be a way for him to avoid answering a question about his stunning $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department, two departments he oversees.

 Charles Littlejohn pleaded guilty in 2023 to leaking the president’s tax returns to the New York Times and received five years in prison. In 2020, the New York Times reported that Trump – despite his purported wealth – only paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and no taxes for most of the previous 15 years. At the time, Trump claimed that the story was “totally fake news.”  

+++++++++++++++++++++++

Donald Trump keeps making bad thing worse and worse.

When the Wall Street Journal mentioned the birthday letter that we all know he wrote to Jeffrey Epstein, he sued the WSJ for $10,000,000,000 claiming no such letter exists. Then, after the actual letter showed up with the Donald Trump signature that we all know with certainty was his, he doubled down. Instead of letting it blow over, his deranged, delusional mind with progressive dementia, conditioned by decades of being a bully and making threats, somehow thinks that threatening a lawsuit of epic proportions on the globally well respected and legally protected WSJ  is going to cause people to not believe their eyes and brains and believe an unhinged lunatic.



Similar thing with his lawsuit of the IRS. Only in this case, the information released was done illegally. However, that information about his taxes was 100% authentic and it makes him look really, REALLY bad. So what does he do? Long after it was forgotten he greatly Amplifies the damage TO HIMSELF by drawing much more attention to it by filing a $10,000,0000,000 lawsuit against the IRS of all places, after everybody had completely forgotten about it. His mind is no longer capable of analyzing information without it being completely overwhelmed with his obsession for vengeance. Vengeance and his being convinced that his omnipotence and unlimited power can destroy everybody that ever did anything to him and crush anybody that opposes him.

We are seeing more and more and more examples of his progressive dementia. He appointed only enablers and cheerleaders that pledged their allegiance to Donald Trump so there is nothing and nobody help reign in his galactically crazy thinking, communicating and acting.